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Utah's quarterback Terrance Cain (7) looks to pass against Oregon during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Eugene, Ore., Saturday Sept. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)

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4 months ago: Utah's quarterback Terrance Cain (7) looks to pass against Oregon during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Eugene, Ore., Saturday Sept. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)

Prior to Oregon, I talked about how this game would tell us what we needed to know about the Utes. But did it really? I'm not so sure. In fact, it probably provided a bit more questions than answers and I'm not sure that is entirely a bad thing. 

I say this because there are certain types of losses. There are those losses that expose you. A game that brings to light your fundamental flaws that ultimately might not be resolved by the time the season finishes. I look at BYU's loss to Florida State and I can't help but think it fits this option. Then there are losses that should have been wins. That's what we saw Saturday with Utah.

I'd rather be in Utah's position right now than BYU's because I think they can fix the problems that plagued them Saturday and grow as a team. For the Cougars, they lost a lot with their defeat to the Seminoles. It's something that might not be corrected, especially when you realize it's the same issues on defense and with Max Hall that they saw last year. Because of this, the Utes left Eugene with a loss, but they also have room to improve. 

They're a young team with issues and I'm not trying to gloss over those issues. Yet I can't help but think everything will be all right. Maybe I'm just fooling myself here, but I didn't see anything disastrous about Saturday's loss. 

Of course, if these problems aren't corrected, then they will become disastrous and it will unravel their season. 

College Sports | College Football | Utah teams probably can forget about BCS | Seattle Times Newspaper

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Deseret News | Utah Utes football: Trying to work through growing pains

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Beehive state not abuzz - The Denver Post

Cards' loss also a gain | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal

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Thanks Jazzy Ute

Hey Jazzy Ute thanks first of all for doing a tremendous job on this blog I hope get to read this, well to get right to it, I agree with your assessment of the oregon game it doesn’t feel like the end of the world and it certainly does feel like there were many correctable things within the oregon game but the one thing I came away with is that Terrance cain is a beast…sound funny to say that just looking at his stats in the game but many things played against him in this game, namely receivers dropping passes and wet slippery conditions but I’m curious to see if anyone agrees with me on this but i’m actually more encouraged about terrance cain after the oregon game than I was before and most of all with cain elusiveness. boy he showed flashes of that stunned me with his ability to escape and improvise, and his 3rd and 18 touchdown pass to brooks looked eerily similar to another top athlete quarter back tyrod taylors touchdown pass against nebraska where he also had to scramble around for many seconds before finding someone. I think cain will continue to improve and put up some pretty insane total offense numbers this season, what remains to be seen and what I hope Cain can learn from this is how to engineer the drive when we need it, theres no doubt in my mind brian johnson would have led the utes all the way down to score on that last drive at oregon if he was still here, I think cain can do the same as soon as next week if given the chance, what really was encouraging to me was that it really looks like cain has all the tools to be better than any previous utah quarterback ever…yes I am serious his athleticism is insane…but just needs to become a “winner” so to speak when the game is on the line.

by FromTucsonWithLove on Sep 21, 2009 1:48 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Thanks!

Hope you keep reading.

I pretty much agree with you. I think Cain will improve. He doesn’t look bad. He’s made mistakes, but he’s not a total lost cause like some Utah quarterbacks of yesteryear.

by JazzyUte on Sep 21, 2009 10:23 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

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